Jimmy (The "Useful Idiot") Carter in Cuba

MSNBC, AP, CNN | 12 May 2002

[CaptIsaacDavis]

Mr. Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba on Sunday. In the middle of a war on terrorism, and coming on the heels of press stories indicating that the U.S. government believes Castro's army has developed chemical and biological weapons, Mr. Carter chose to help legitimize one of the world's foremost promoters of state-sponsored terrorism and nuclear terror directed at the USA. JC can now add Castro to his list of brutal communist dictators that he has kissed up to (along with the former Kim Il-Sung of North Korea).

How quickly we forget!!! It was Castro who invited in Soviet nuclear weapons not for self-defense, but as we now know from Soviet archives and testimonies of former participants, because he relished the prospect of a nuclear war with the United States. We also know from a Cuban Air Force pilot who defected in the 1980s that he has plans to attack U.S. nuclear power plants in the event of a crisis with the USA. The United States has a group of Puerto Rican terrorists in prison in NY (the same terrorists that Sen. Hillary Clinton was manuevering to get released during her campaign), who are just a fraction of the hundreds of PR communist terrorists that Castro armed, trained, and financed during their campaign of terror in the United States during the 1970s. Never mind that there are also dozens of home-grown left-wing terrorists still sitting in U.S. prisons who worship Castro and Che Guevara. Castro is also the man who armed and financed many of the most vicious communist terrorists in Latin America, including groups our soldiers are STILL fighting against in cooperation with local militaries, e.g., Columbia's FARC.

The apologists for Castro say that he has "moderated" his support for international terrorism since the collapse of the Soviet empire. True, but only because he no longer has the resources or support to be so aggressive (and alienate needed trading partners in Latin America). His willigness to use terror as a means of promoting communist revolutions has NOT moderated -- as evident in the "unreformed" communist propaganda and indoctrination (including the idealization of Che) still imposed on the imprisoned nation of Cuba.

[ozzymandus]

What an uber-boob. Remember when he went to N. Korea and Kim Il-Sung made him dance?

[backhoe]

You actually have a point- the Olympic boycott was far more effective than anyone thought it would be. And to give Carter some credit ( if I'm recalling aright ) he did start the cruise missile & B-1 bomber programs. Still, it looks bad for him to get cozy with one of the last of the old-time Communist dictators of a slave state.